I feel sorry for Michelle Malkin. And perhaps even more sorry for the uptight white conservative males who hang on her every word (see graphic, below). This is a recent development by the way; since she’s essentially the heiress to Ann Coulter’s hyperbole-driven partisan “journalism”, I’ve always found her ranting to be pretty predictable. So why do I feel sorry for her? Because I took the time to read her basic biographical information on Wikipedia. If you juxtapose the basic facts of her personal life and her desperate (but profitable) pandering to xenophobic white America, an image of an intelligent and driven individual warped by dashed hopes and consumed by self-denial comes into sharp focus. The fact that she was born in Philadelphia as a child of Philippine citizens that had arrived in the United States earlier that year actually makes her anti-immigration diatribes make sense. As a friend of mine put it, “she’s like the slave who says all the right things to make the master happy”. If it matters, the friend who said this is black and Republican. It’s also enlightening that Malkin attended Oberlin with hopes of being a concert pianist. When – as she puts it – she realized that she “couldn’t cut it with piano”, she switched her major to English, later belittling the school as a “radically left-wing, liberal arts college”. So here we have a classic frustrated artist, whose birth is much like that of the “anchor babies” she rails against, whose parents are from a country that has probably felt the negative effects of American colonialism more than most, rabidly upholding the kind of isolationist nationalism that might make Kim Jong-il proud. It’s sad that someone so bright – who has benefited so much from foreign nationals immigrating to America – is so tortured by personal failure and cultural shame that she can’t discuss immigration in a more positive light. I mean, take a look at these mind-blowing lists of American immigrants. With Columbus Day just around the corner, maybe it’s a good time to remember that EVERYONE on this continent is an immigrant.

It’s telling that Malkin’s audience is predominantly Caucasian and male:

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